Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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National Affairs: Who Would Be King Time 1923-10-08 Word came to the U. S. that William Henry Ellis, who preferred to style himself Guillermo Enrique Eliseo, died in Mexico City. Mr. Ellis was one of the most remarkable men who ever acted as agent for the State Department. He was known chiefly for the famous…
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The Surprising Story of Walter White and the NAACP Time 2015-07-01 Jennifer Latson July 1, 1893: Walter Francis White, head of the NAACP for more than 20 years, is born In the last few weeks, Rachel Dolezal—the Spokane, Wash., NAACP leader who recently left her post after being outed as white though saying that she…
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See First Photos of Matthew McConaughey in The Free State of Jones Time 2015-04-21 Sarah Begley, Culture Reporter Matthew McConaughey stars in The Free State of Jones (Murray Close) He’s basically your Civil War boyfriend For an actor, there’s no better awards bait than an appearance-transforming role in a biographical war movie. World, meet The…
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Misty Copeland The 100 Most Influential People Time 2015-04-16 Nadia Comăneci, Five-time Olympic gold medalist Ballet’s breakout star Like all gymnasts, I’ve done some ballet—it’s a part of our program. And people don’t realize the tremendous amount of time and work you have to put in to do the maneuvers they do. Ballerinas like Misty…
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New Book Explores Role of Race for First Lady Michelle Obama Time 2015-03-30 Maya Rhodan, Reporter Author paints the First Lady as the President’s rock, notes the impact her background would have on her future as the nation’s first black First Lady During her senior year at Princeton University, First Lady Michelle Obama couldn’t imagine…
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Pictures made in the ’60s by a young photographer, Joo Myung Duck, depict the mixed-race children of foreign servicemen and Korean women
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Diving into the Gene Pool TIME Magazine 2006-08-20 Carolina A. Miranda If they held a convention for racial purity, I would never make the guest list. Like most other Latin American families, mine is a multiethnic stew that has left me with the generic black-eyed and olive-skinned look typical of large swaths of the world’s…
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THE CONGRESS: Black’s White TIME Magazine 1938-01-24 To Negro Lee Jones, a 31-year-old mill-hand of Greensboro, Ala., last week’s doings in the U. S. Senate were good news. Negro Jones had been arrested, charged with jumping on the running board of a car to kidnap Mrs. Robert Knox Greene, wife of a white planter. When…